Bad News About Pesticides? End Pesticide Reporting!

This is getting more than just scary, Pamela

Once you let a group have the right to kill and maim without consequence, it's hard to find the line where the right trade off between deaths, injuries and profits strike the perfect balance.

A few years ago there was the EPA CHEERS program where low income families could get $600 and a cam corder to expose their children to pesticides and household chemicals. That was to determine unsafe exposure limits but public outcry stopped it.

Now we don't need to worry where the limits are, all deadly effects will be forever removed from the cause. Americans can keep up the feel good fraud of, Race for the Cure instead.

Texans for Public Justice has a good bio on Nancy Brinker, Bush Pioneer and Ambassador to Hungry and her PR bonanza behind Race for the Cure, that is both a distraction from cause and a huge money making, goodwill whitewashing strategy. Pure genius!!

My pleasure; that wench Brinker gives me a big time cramp. I've written about her cancer treatment centers and lobbying to keep oncology drug pricing with the providers, a system most oncologists abhor and oppose. Sad racket and pitiful reflection of not for profits and corporate government.

Now, come to find out, many of the companies that manufacture chemotherapy drugs are manufacturing harmful chemicals through their crops science group that ended up on the EPA's list of endocrine disruptors. And it has been suggested Komen and Brinker may be involved with these companies.

Nancy Brinker is one of the tops of my dirtbag list. It is criminal that women who are most at risk are targeted with Pink Ribbon campaigns filled with toxic products and the same companies who offer the hope of treatment are hiding the ingredients of illness.

I'm so glad you learned the truth and stopped to share with us. It's a common theme for me and a favorite site for those who are tired of this cam, Think Before You Pink. We need to rethink how we think about most sources we trust, they have betrayed the public and time to turn the tables!

More of the same kind of 'protection' from King W's administration I don't need.

Much as I love to blame Dubbya, this isn't all his fault. The process of undermining the regulatory agencies goes back to their creation. Nixon appointed Ruckleshouse to head EPA at its creation and he was on the Monsanto Board. The idea of MRL or maximum residue levels and tolerance amounts has been growing ever since.

The entire industry of gmo food being fed to the public without our knowledge dates to Bush-Quayle. The biotech was unveiled as a plan to flourish unhindered by government in an environment of regulatory relief. No one did more to grow the corporate control than Clinton.

This is an ongoing process resulting from a Congress and political system that's corrupt to the core and a media that lets too much go unreported. Dubbya has just behaved as any arrogant heir who knows he's untouchable and raised the bar. Unless the media gets on board and starts reporting names not an alphabet soup of acronyms that hide front group agendas in defending the indefensible they'll kill us all, slowly.

but it's been posted on MSNBC under the Newsvine Correspondents section.

Who'd ever dream a piece of mine, would be fit for corporate consumption? Am I slipping? *smirk*

Forest...This administration doesn't fund itself to give oversite, kind of like the SEC.....pretty tough to control anything without money.

It's true the man with the gold makes the rules, but consumers drive this economy. We can show our anger and flex our economic muscle. Look at every dollar as a vote; put it where it does some good. Keep as much as possible small and local, Local Harvest gets my vote as a first source to search for food.

CuriousG...But the EPA and USDA are still funded by Congress, aren't they?

They do fall under Congress and while Forest is right about underfunding and cutting off, there are still billions that pass through to keep the doors open and the agribusiness buddies fed. The bulk of the power, influence and funds go to ADM, Cargill, Monsanto et al and it is for a small collection of commodities. Dairy, corn, soy, rice, wheat and cotton.

Those few crops use the bulk of the gmo seed and chemicals. Fight back by hitting them where they care, in the cash register. Soycott, quit buying the corn and soy, don't buy the sodas or drinks or hyped neutracuticals, like smart waters! Not smart at all except the marketing. Let their %$#@ filled cereals and snacks sit on the shelves and make oatmeal instead.

Try oatmeal cookies, even with some organic chocolate chips. No kid says no to cookies and a smattering of good choclate is great for the body and spirit. My kiddies grew up on good stuff hidden as muffins and cookies. They're better for you and cheaper, if you don't burn any. :~)

Yep, all the more reason to highlight abuses and to contact our representatives and let them know how you feel.

That's the ticket, call and keep asking, Can you hear me now? These jockers are there to serve the public and take our money to do it. They are not annointed rulers, but puyblic servants who need an attitude adjustment and a wake up call by hearing that people are fed up.

Please do remember though that the folks who answer the phones don't make the laws or enact the policies, they don't even get paid very well. Try to be brief, calm and polite and make one point. They tally the calls so issue of the day is the bigger bang for your buck,

All the Committees and Members have staff and the switchboard will connect you to any office in the Capitol. They will even locate your member by zip code if you're unsure.

Don't any one of you feel intimidated either. It's expected that employers, like we the people, do a job performance check on the employees. *smirk* Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121

Yes it is perfectly perfect to say Right On. The kiddies go with, keep it chill, but what do they know about cool, we invented it. Check the hippest retro styles, we're totally groovy baby!!

To utilize the EPA itself as a medium to spread disinformation and by that right protect those who will eventually be called out for their complicity in the calculated attempt to obscure this type of information from the public, is the height of corruption and nadir in the holding of the public trust.

I couldn't agree more. Sadly the examples are countless and one case more horrifying than the next. The American public and Natural resources have been turned to one big petrie dish where the idea of dying for profits is a measure that is on an ever sliding scale. How many are too many?

Feel free to add links, the more the merrier here. Folks can reference the identical source you're looking at. I'm sorry I snoozed on putting a link in but am so glad the right story turned up for you.

☀ ☤ that's a happy Rx!! Mwwah, that's a big kiss and it comes with a hug too. ☀

Terrifically this cannot pass without a caveat to one source of the funding, the American Chemistry Council, to the tune of 2.1 million

Those fellas are all heart, caring about exposure effects, from conception to age of consumption.

Thank you Infohack, you should seed this as a separate article to get more eyeballs on it.

Yes please infohack, what CG said, but give us a link here, so no one misses the leap! :~)

I seem to recall tucking something of that sort into my files and will poke around for it at first chance, if someone here doesn't beat me to it. :~)

So much that seems confusing is as clear as a bell, when you follow the money! :~)

Don't know how to cleverly add them in as you guys do...

Once you have been here a little while they give you a little toolbar on the comment box and that lets you highlight the section you want to link and then paste the URL in the pop up box. :~)